Re: Bill's Thread "Going Down Through the Gears, 5 Litre Style"

[Josh_G]

Originally posted by SloVR4
Did anyone else check Denjam's profile & read that he is a "sexual therapist" :D

Yeah I did.

[dirtyrex]

If I was Skaife, I wouldnt care about anything other than winning. Sure you can sign some autographs and stuff when you get time, but I'd rather spend time with my engineers making sure my car is perfect - which is obviously what he does.
Being a race driver isnt always about making everyone happy. Just look at Schumacher. I reckon hes a legend because he gets the job done, whether people like it or not

[old baggins]

Originally posted by kalium
I use my gears for braking, purely to save my brakes (and because my brakes are so poo they cant do the job half of the time).

gears are for going, brakes are for stopping.

I would rather get a new set of discs and pads over a gearbox or engine rebuild anyday! If your brakes aren't up to the job, then it is quite obvious what needs attending, even a small outlay of some decent pads is affordable.

[coyote]

Originally posted by SloVR4
Did anyone else check Denjam's profile & read that he is a "sexual therapist" :D

Ahhh… that Skaifey, what a joker!


Now there’s this big heavy thing in a car called the engine. It’s designed to make it go. Then there are these things called brakes at each corner. They’re designed to make it stop.

If that big heavy engine thing does a better job of stopping the car than those brake things placed at each corner whose sole purpose is to slow the thing down… then I reckon the person designing the brakey things needs to take a good hard look at himself!

Better still, just use engine braking. Imagine the saving in unsprung weight!

[Group3JDatsun]

Nice work Cplus!!!!!! I can understand the disbelief of having Skaify call!!! That would have been a mind bender. And what a top bloke for responding.....that's the coolest thing I've read all day!!!!

I called Gibson Motorsport years ago (maybe 8 or 9....when they'd become a V8 team) about factory GTR front brakes (after about 10 phone calls to various places, I find out they were apparently the only people in Oz who knew about them ). They said the dude I needed to talk to was busy and would call me back. I thought, "yeah right, normal workshops can't do that much, so as if a busy professional race team will". But he did - and not only that we spoke for almost an hour with him giving me heaps of advice on how to setup my piddly (by comparison to their machines) Club Car and telling me to do the brake conversion because it'd stop like nothing on earth. Once I hung up and did some research, I found out it was their Chief Engineer! Can't remember his name, but I've still got the notes from the conversation at home in a folder......:D

[Billzilla]

Did someone say regenerative braking ...
Shhhh, maybe they won't hear you!

[gti6]

Coyote, I disagree.

In Mad Max 2, Max stops the car effectively by switching on the supercharger and throwing the car in reverse. This looks to me like a superb form of braking.

*edit*

Racers beware - using this method, if you have a FWD car with flat tyres (infinite contact patch), you may flip the car.

[Kangz]

Originally posted by Bill Sherwood
Did someone say regenerative braking ...
Shhhh, maybe they won't hear you!

But it will never bring the car to a dead stop, will it?

[Billzilla]

Pedant.

[tomee]

this reminsd me of a stroy
i have a friedn who works in jag chadstone and skaife came in and tried to take her out to dinner! :O

[coyote]

Originally posted by Bill Sherwood
Did someone say regenerative braking ...
Shhhh, maybe they won't hear you!

You mean if Murphy had used his brakes less he would have had enough fuel to win the Qld 500?

[coyote]

Originally posted by gti6
Coyote, I disagree.

In Mad Max 2, Max stops the car effectively by switching on the supercharger and throwing the car in reverse. This looks to me like a superb form of braking.

*edit*

Racers beware - using this method, if you have a FWD car with flat tyres (infinite contact patch), you may flip the car.

I stand corrected.

[TheNewMonaro]

Originally posted by gti6
iFWD car with flat tyres (infinite contact patch)

BWAHAHAHAHA... ahh, racedriver, what a champion..

[Kangz]

Originally posted by Bill Sherwood
Pedant.

Something about a pot calling a kettle something or other?

:D

[Billzilla]

Yes, but that's the standard I set. :D